Word: whips
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...questions not embraced by party lines. If belonging to the party in power, it is considered essential that he should cast his vote on all party questions, and in order to do this he must be present in person. In this he is assisted by what is called the "whip" document, sent to him every morning by the leaders of his party, who act as ministers, in which a programme of the business of the day is published, and from the heading of this paper, which is underscored either once, twice, three or four times, he is able to judge...
...fact that certain men with infidel views go forth from here every year. But these persons so vigorous in their cries of alarm, would say fully as much as the students if they were taught that the only way to make men worship God was to whip them in against their will. If there is any tendency toward infidelity it is owing to this fact, and not to the influence of the great student body. Also it is a matter of necessity in a university of the size of Harvard, where students come from all classes and all states, that...
...Face, who was a length ahead of Papoose. Down the backstretch the horses went in the same order, with Spotted Tail lapping Redskin, the others having lost some distance. Rounding the turn, Spotted Tail overhauled Redskin, headed him and opened distance, coming down the homestretch and finishing under the whip a clear length ahead. Meanwhile Papoose overtook Pale Face, and ran a good third to finish. Time was not taken...
...said a conscientious teacher, "do you know why I am going to whip you?" "Yes," replied the young hopeful; "because you're bigger than...
...rumors reaches the students of an aweinspiring dignitary seated in his 'old carved oaken chair of state.' It is vaguely intimated that at times he seems to consider his high-backed chair a throne, and the necks of his meek contemporaries adjustable footstools. It is hinted that the executive whip is cracked with a facility that could only have been acquired by a prolonged apprenticeship at a German court. If such is the condition of things in the mysterious precincts of the faculty room it may be that the apprentice is acting on the principle that a little royalty...